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 The RiftBreaker is a base building game, which also has a mech fighting component - very similar to another of their games I played, X-Morph:Defense . Interface is nice overall, although as your base gets bigger managing it gets pretty hard, and it is hard to tell what is taking power, exactly, or why connected resources won't work. There are tons of upgrades, including each base element, the mech weapons, extra mech powers, etc. There are a lot of elements involved, though, and they don't seem to always show in the UI. Overall, I really like it so far, but I can't help but feel that the UI could be a little better. Update (11/Jan/2022): Finished it on easy - about 23h. Pretty good, although skills disappeared from the list altogether halfway through, and I had to restart missions that failed for no good reason.

Seems silly, but I had a Xbox Wireless Bluetooth Controller that disconnected from my PC after random amounts of time (usually 10 minutes or so). Turns out it was paired to both my tablet and PC, and for some reason, even when the tablet was turned off, it would pair to it. I could just tell by the fact that the controller would suddenly jump to the top of the Bluetooth decide list. Solution is simple - either unpair the controller on the other device, or turn off bluetooth on it.

The Dispatcher: Murder by other means is the second volume in a SF (or fantasy?) series by John Scalzi, all pretty short (around 100 pages). I wasn't aware there was a previous one as I was reading (I think I got it because of a sale), although there are enough references. The base story is that for unknow reasons, people who are murdered come back to life fine, 999 times out of a thousand. It is silly but cute premise, and Scalzi used it well. The action was satisfying, and so was how everything came together at the end.

 Runtime, by S.B. Divya, is a SF novella in a future world where people have implants that improve a number of things, and where "free" services in the US are only for some original citizens - others have to buy a license. This obviously reminds me of Machinehood (which is the reason I got this), and it is pretty good in its own way, although very short.

 Imago, by Octavia E. Butler, is the final volume of the Xenogenesis series, where a group of aliens that only use biotech save humans from extinction, but require that future humans can only have hybrids with them. This one cover another of Lilith's kids - Jodahs, which turns out to be an ooloi (so does his "sister", but she is a smaller character). This is similar to the previous book, in the sense that it shows the main character's efforts to learn about their role as a new hybrid species, and their relations with humans and aliens. Overall, pretty good, I really liked the series overall - specially for the imaginative world building with bio-tech.

 Adulthood Rites, by Octavia E. Butler, is the second book in the Xenogenesis series. The series is about a group of aliens that rescues the last human survivors after wars pretty much wiped out humankind and destroyed the biosphere. They don't work for free, though - any new humans will be designed by them to have genes from both species. There is also a small matter of what they will be doing with Earth when done... The last book talked about Lilith, a survivor that was used to train other humans, and that ended up being made pregnant against her will. This one starts later, and is about a new baby that mostly looks human, but is Oonkali, and very smart.  Early in the story, it is kidnapped by humans, who don't want to be made pregnant by the Oonkali but still want human looking babies... I think I liked this one better - there was less wallowing in the existential despair of the situation, and more action. The world building is pretty great, and there are extra explanations...